AST buys patents to protect its members from patent litigation, provides them with licenses to the technology, and then resells the patents on the open market.

企业安全联盟购买专利，以便保护成员避免专利诉讼，为它们提供技术许可，然后在公开市场上出售专利。

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I could imagine that over a longer period of time aquarium shops will open in different locations in a city, rather than all concentrated in one aquarium market ast is now in most cases.

我可以想象在经过一个较长的时间后，水族零售店将会更多的分布在城市的各个小区，而不是像现在那样集中在某几个大的批发市场里面。

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I could imagine that over a longer period of time aquarium shops will open in different locations in a city, rather than all concentrated in one aquarium market ast is now in most cases.

我可以想象在经过一个较长的时间后，水族零售店将会更多的分布在城市的各个小区，而不是像现在那样集中在某几个大的批发市场里面。

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